Your art class just got run over by a steamroller
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Well now, I'll tell you what, you hear about a lot of art projects from the Red Deer Polytechnic, but this one's got legs like a yearling. Seems like the Visual Art students over there decided that paintbrushes and easels were just too… conventional. Instead, they got themselves a steamroller and, I guess, just started making art with it. You heard that right. A *steamroller*.
My dad always said you gotta use the tools you got, but I reckon he meant a wrench, not a 12-ton piece of road equipment for a canvas. It's a pretty wild thought, isn't it? Imagine rolling down Gaetz Avenue, past the old Capitol Theatre, and seeing a bunch of art students flattening paint with something you usually see fixing potholes out on Highway 11. It's the kind of inventive, no-nonsense thinking that I actually think Red Deer is pretty good at.
### What This Means for Red Deer Art
* **Unconventional Approach:** It’s a definite shift from your typical gallery show down by the Red Deer River. * **Community Engagement:** It makes you stop and look, and probably chuckle a little, which is good for getting folks talking about art. * **Red Deer Ingenuity:** It just shows that our local folks can think outside the box, or maybe, outside the easel.
It’s a bit of a head-scratcher, but in a good way. It keeps the creative spirit moving in Red Deer, and honestly, if it gets folks talking about art more than the price of crude, I’m all for it. Maybe next year they'll try a combine harvester. You never know with these kids.
Wyatt Brandt, MiTL Sports Desk, Red Deer.
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